Senate Begins Examining AAA Substitute Plan in Study
Washington February 6 The Senate opened examination of the AAA substitute plan after repeal of cotton tobacco and potato controls President Roosevelt sought only his signature to end the compulsory crop limits He summoned House leaders for tax talks and then financial advisers to trim the gap between income and outgo May adjourn surfaced with Burns projecting May 15 as a likely date Farm subsidy taxes were discussed Senate Norris warned the plan aims to outpace the Supreme Court and questioned Congress power to repeal its acts The bill would empower the secretary of agriculture to pay farmers subsidies for soil conservation with states sharing funds subject to approval States would join after two years or lose subsidies Chairman Smith doubted constitutionality but noted potential workability Cost estimated around 500 million dollars per year The article continues on page seven.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
House
Treasury
Burns
Congress
Norris
R-Neb
Supreme Court
Smith
D-Sc
Agriculture Committee
Winchester Praises F F A For Modern Agriculture Training
MA Winchester extols the Future Farmers of America as a growing national group shaping thousands of youths toward farming careers. He notes chapters nationwide offer supervision in projects farm product judging and athletics, promoting scientific methods and better practices beyond old traditions. He mentions an upcoming district basketball tournament with Frederick teams competing.
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Future Farmers of America
St. Patrick’s Day
Frederick
Deep Split Evening Gowns Dominate Paris Fashion Show
Deeply split Paris fashion show entries feature 34 in skirts with new spring angles. Designers present long sleeved dinner frocks cut to the knee or into deep front V shapes. Black satin gowns show trains with waistfront slits revealing satin trousers and sheer tulle over shorter foundations.
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Paris
Speakers At Civic League Luncheon Highlight Welfare Drive
Members of the Civic League met at the George Washington Hotel for a February luncheon. Arthur M. Field outlined the City Welfare Department drive for relief funds with Rosenberger’s corps leading volunteers. Ben Belchie of the Lions Club spoke on Lions youth aid and the youthful blind. Mrs. Stewart Elting presided and promoted the safety campaign co sponsored by the league. Girl Scouts assisted in the safety effort and safety films were shown in Winchester.
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Civic League
George Washington
Arthur M. Field
City Welfare Department
John H. Rosenberger
Ben Belchie
Lions’ Club
Virginia
Elting
Stewart Elting
Melvin Green
Winchester
Truck Skids Off Valley Pike Rollover With 50 Cedar Chests
A Dodge truck loaded with 50 cedar chests left the Valley Pike near the city this morning and rolled 15 feet into a field. Both occupants were uninjured. License TH-13124 noted, with reports the truck may have come from Lynchburg and drivers sought another rig nearby. Markings showed it ran on the shoulder before the embankment drop.
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Valley Pike
Lynchburg
Teen Confesses to Cabin Murder Near Albuquerque
Modesto Trujillo, 16, a Spanish American youth, confessed to Sheriff Ross Salazar that he killed Carl Taylor, a vagabond magazine writer, in a lonely mountain cabin near Albuquerque last night.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Modesto Trujilloon
Ross Salazar
Carl Taylor
Vagabond Magazine
Lonely Mountain
United Miners Extend Authority to Coal Plants
The United Mine Workers voted to extend their jurisdiction to coal processing plants, signaling a new clash between industrial and craft unions as authorities expand beyond mining.
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United Miners
Washington
United Mine Workers
Red Flannels Unearthed as Heirlooms by Local Firm
Gray and Sheetz, a local toggery firm, display a pair of red flannels found among long unnoticed articles. They estimate the garments were bought about 15 years ago from the Baltimore wholesale firm Rouse and Hempstone Company, which no longer exists. An Associated Press inquiry prompted the discovery. An Ohio report mentions an elderly woman in Cincinnati who regularly orders from a local city firm for rheumatism.
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Associated Press
Gray and
Cincinnati
Ohio
Friendship Fire Company to Meet February 6
The regular monthly meeting of the Friendship Fire Company will be held Thursday evening February 6 at 8 o'clock. All members urged to attend. Richard Boxwell, Captain.
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The
Friendship Fire Company
Richard Boxwell
U S Could Build Warships Cheaper In Government Yards
Engineers for the Interstate Commerce Commission told the Senate munitions committee that by spending 47 million dollars the government could acquire equipment to build a fleet of 17 warships annually at a lower cost than private yards and produce much of its own munitions. The plan includes 221,000 tons of auxiliary craft and a broad modernization program led by Vinson with bills from Trammell.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
F. W. Amadon
Charles H. Spencer
Senate Munitions Committee
U. S
New York Shipbuilding Company
Spencer
New York Company
Dorado
Amadon Big
Navy Modernization
Navy Department
Gheifjoan Vinson
D-Ga
House Naval Committee
Trammell
D.-Fla
Senate Naval Committee
Congress
Navy
Woman of 33 Held Prisoner in Darkened Room
A 33 year old woman named Dama Coleman was locked in a darkened room for 22 years, was found at her mother Minnie Coleman’s home in McKendree West Virginia. State Trooper O R Kincaid reported she spoke only that food is good and she refused to talk. The mother Minnie Coleman faces a lunacy hearing and is jailed. Dr R D Hatfield assessed the woman as mentally normal.
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Mckendree
W. Va
O. R. Kincaid
Dama Coleman
Minnie Coleman
Mountain Shack
Daugher
R. D. Hatfield
Swanson Confined With Broken Rib After Fall
Navy Secretary Swanson, 74, was admitted to the Navy Hospital after a fall at his home last night. He slipped in the bathroom and struck a chair, and the hospital reports he is resting comfortably today.
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Washington
Navy Department
Swanson
Navy Hospital
Naval
U C V to Meet at Shreveport This June
Nashville report states General Harry R. Lee announced the United Confederate Veterans will hold its forty sixth annual reunion in Shreveport from June 10 to 13. He estimated about 800 veterans will attend.
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Nashville
Tenn
Harry Rene Lee
United Confederate Veterans
Shreveport
Clearance Sale Hats 39
Mary S Yeakley announces a clearance sale featuring hats priced at 39 cents each at Cp 11. The item list includes various styles and sizes, with discounts for bulk purchases and limited stock on selected colors.
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Mary S. Yeakley
Cp-11
Senate OKs amended bar integration bill in Virginia
The Virginia Senate passed the bar integration bill 22 to 17 after amending to drop a misdemeanor for lawyers who fail to pay a $5 annual bar fee. Senator Robinette condemned the measure as undemocratic and American while warning it could disbar a lawyer mid trial for non payment.
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State Capitol
Richmond
Senate
Robinette
Lee County
Wickham
Hanover
Rotary Luncheon Features Daniel E. Wright on Greece
Daniel E. Wright, connected with the Rockefeller Foundation in Athens, Greece, spoke to the Rotary club on Ancient and Modern Greece. He traced Greek records thousands of years, compared antiquity with China, and described ancient culture and artifacts. President Marshall presided and Walker Bond introduced the speaker as safety talks and pictures accompanied the luncheon.
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Daniel E. Wright
Rockefeller Foundation
Athens
Greece
Rotary Club
China
Old
Lion
Isla
Grete
Crete
House Engrosses Profits Bill Allocating Local Share
The Virginia House engrossed the Daughtrey McCue profits bill after debate. It would allocate five percent of liquor profits to localities with stores before distributing the rest by population, with towns counties and adjacent cities sharing based on amended terms.
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Richmond
Daughtrey-McCue
B. E. Chapman
Roanoke County
ABC
Fire lage meeting Cancelled or rescheduled notice
The notice announces a meeting for the Sarah Zane Fire lage to be held Friday evening February 7 at 8 o'clock. Every member is asked to attend. Signed R B Brown Captain.
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Sarah Zane
Simplify Voting Bill Aimed at Affirmative Ballots
E Blackburn Moore of Winchester with Frederick and Clarke counties co authors a bill to switch Virginia ballots to affirmative voting. It notes the current negative voting wastes ballots and time. The measure would require marking only the chosen candidate and expedites counting.
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E. Blackburn Moore
Winchester
Frederick and
Clarke
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Virginia
Blackburn Moore
Hearing Delayed On Virginia Yellow Dog Injunction Bill
Virginia hearing on the Robinson Maxey bill banning the yellow dog contract and limiting injunctions in labor disputes was postponed to Monday at 3 p m by the House courts of justice committee. The session drew few members. The Quesen highway funds bill moved to the House floor without recommendation and linking highways in towns was sent to the floor. The Robinson Maxey measure asserts workers and employers may freely associate and choose representatives to negotiate terms without employer interference.
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State Capitol
Richmond
House Courts of Justice Committee
Quesen
House
House Roads Committee
Virginia
Nation Battles Arctic Chill and Flood Threats Across Regions
Snow and cold grip much of the United States with temperatures plunging to double digits below zero in the north and flood threats reemerging along the Gulf and in parts of the South. Deaths from weather approach 500 this year as coal shortages persist. In the Midwest and East, residents dig out from heavy snow while southern areas face rain, sleet, and rising rivers.
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Chicago
Rocky Mountains
Arctic
Montana
Iowa
Illinois
MacKenzie River Basin
Canada
Minot
N. D
Atlantic
Gulf
Texas
Tennessee
Wilmington
N.C
Alabama
Mississipi
Mid-West
South Dakota
Yankton Andatertown Traier Marib
Kranzburg
Pigeon Messenger Delivers Orders in South Carolina
R. S. Schirmer travels across lower South Carolina using 13 carrier pigeons to solicit merchants for rice and commodities. He ties orders to a bird’s leg, releases it after finishing each town, claiming pigeons beat mail and telegraph and often secure larger or double orders from skeptical merchants.
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Charleston
S. C
Schirmer
Lower South Carolina
Clarke County Girl Struck By Spinal Meningitis Illness
Miss Lollie Dale Vorous, 12, of Willow Dale Farm near Berryville, is critically ill at Memorial Hospital with spinal meningitis. Her parents sought serum from Severile Laboratories after two local doctors diagnosed meningitis and an airplane shipment arrived from Washington, D C to supply treatment.
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Lollie Dale Vorous
R. N. Vorous
Willow Dale Farm
Berryville
Memcon
Memorial Hospital
Washington, D. C
Ases
Severle Laboratories
Washington
Rhodes
Charles Douglas
Valley One
Virginia State Chamber approves budget and elects directors
The Virginia State Chamber of Commerce in Richmond approved a 75000 dollar budget proposed by President Jay W. Johns and elected eighteen directors for three year and one year terms. Named for three years were W. D. Haden Charlottesville Piedmont district Col E. E. Goodwyn Emporia Southside EB Prescott Big Stone Gap Southwest Norman Call Richmond Tidewater R Gray Williams Winchester Valley and R R West Danville. One year appointees included John H. Brownley Norfolk H A Ford Martinsville Vernon Geddy Williamsburg Ben Gunter Accomac Thomas Herring Harrisonburg B O Hill Suffolk E A Hults Saltville Jay Johns Charlottesville Clem Johnston Roanoke Ben Pitts Fredericksburg William Schwarzschild Richmond and E Lee Trinkle Roanoke.
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Richmond
Virginia State Chamber of Commerce
Jay W. Johns
W D. Haden
Charlottesville
Piedmont
Col
E. E. Goodwyn
Emporia
Southside
EB. J. Prescott
Big Stone Gap
Southwest
Norman Call
Tidewater
R. Gray Williams
Clem Johnston
Roanoke
Ben Pitts
Fredericksburg
William Schwarzschild
E. Lee Trinkle
Hable and Miller Enter Re election Bid
Herman Hable and Percy D. Miller, both first ward Common Council members, announce plans to seek re election. Petitions begin circulating. candidacy filings close February 7 at midnight with Democratic chair Noble C. Pierce. Primary set for April 7.
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Herman H. Hable
Common Council
Percy D. Miller
Noble C. Pierce
Democratic Executive Committee
Tax Bill Hope Not As Large As Expected
House leaders after a talk with President Roosevelt expressed hope a forthcoming tax bill will surprise the country by not being as large as anticipated. The comment signals cautious optimism about fiscal plans and potential reforms.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Trooper's Slayer To Pay Penalty
John Daugherty, convicted slayer of a state policeman in a Fork Union bank hold up, is scheduled to die in the Virginia electric chair tomorrow morning between 8 and 9 o'clock. He was convicted in Fluvanna county for killing State Trooper W. R. Thompson as the officer tried to stop the robbery by Daugherty and two companions.
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Richmond
John Daugherty
Fork Union
Virginia Electric Chair
Daugherty
Fluvanna County
W. R. Thompson
Ice business to continue under Hillyard management
The ice business formerly run by Wm. R. Hillyard will be continued under Ashley H. Hillyard. Patronage from old and new customers is requested. Also noted is a want ad for alfalfa hay and a notice of a fire company meeting.
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Wm. R. Hillyard
Ashley H. Hillyard
Friendship Firemen To See Safety Films Tonight
Friendship Fire Company hosts State Officer William L. Groth for highway safety films at an 8 o clock meeting led by Captain Richard Boxwell. Groth has spoken in Winchester and Handley School this week as the local safety campaign continues.
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Friendship Fire Company
Richard Boxwell
William L. Groth
Groth
Winchester
Handley School
Richmond
Winchester Fire
Foodstuffs Rationed in Strike Amid Whiskey Distillers Clash
Resentment grows among citizens and merchants as a general walkout by workers in a labor dispute with whiskey distillers leads to rationing of foodstuffs. The strike disrupts markets and prompts officials to enforce distribution.
End of Pekin three day general strike in 2000 union men
Pekin Illinois ends a three day general strike by about 2000 union workers after merchants threaten to reopen. Officials say talks with state and federal conciliators will continue while distillery plant crews ration food parcels amid a citywide tension.
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Pekin
Ill
Jack Kinsella
Pereria and Pekin Building Trades Union
Trades and Labor Assembly
World News At A Glance Highlights From Washington To Rome
Domestic inflation fears frame remarks by Franklin Roosevelt and Frank Knox as he debates Ohio candidacy. Reports from Pekin Vincennes Chicago and New York cover strikes weather snow and film premieres. Paris Berlin Rome Berne note fashion bans and a pope anniversary and a planned Swiss trial for David Frankfurter in a Nazi assassination case.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Pekin
Vincennes
Ind
Col
Frank Knox
Ohio
Cincinnati
Chicago
Rocky Mountains
New York
Charlie Chaplin
Wilhelm Gutsloff
Chur
Switzerland
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Inkinson
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House of Delegates
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W. L. Groth
James Himelright
Handley High School
L. E. Roland
Alexandria Rotary Club
A. L. Peterson
Lester D. Arnold
B. M. Knight, Sr
B. M. Knight, Jr
George Miller
Sarah Zane Fire CO
R. B. Brown
Editorial
Yellow Dog
Clarke County
Gray Williams
State Chamber
Hable
Miller
Alfalfa Kay
P. O. Box
Mome
M. D. Weaver
Star Office
Style Shop
Friendship
Bulletin
Harry Donahue
Peoria
L. C. Hjork
National Labor Relations Board
Donnahue
W. C. Schurman
John Patterson
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